well taekwondo! easiest to be! coz u have to learn almost nothing in it

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Are you quite sure about this?
How can you become proficient at a martial art if that is the case?
In any martial art you have to learn basics (and as our sensei always claims (and I must agree with him) "If your basics are not good, your karate is not good", and while this is about karate and not Tae Kwon Do, there is definitely an analogy), punches, kicks, blocks, stances, attacking and defense techniques, kata and more.

Now, although I have never done Tae Kwon Do, I cannot imagine anyone getting by, be it in the dojo or on the street, with hardly any techniques learned and without practicing the studied techniques thoroughly so they can be executed to the most effective level.
When I see (taking the example of Tae Kwon Do) the variety of techniques they execute I would hardly see them as people who have "almost learned nothing".
We do live in a real world, not in a fictional Mr. Myagi world, where the students are taught the whole concept of a martial art on the principles of washing a car (wax on, wax off), painting a fence (up, down, side to side), sanding a floor (big circle, small circle) and all those things.
(Although it is a nice thing to see how Mr. Myagi bases all the techniques on everyday moves).

 

 

 

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Mrdee has some good advice; don't break your budget to indulge your hobby and find a style that fits you. I learned okenawan kempo many years ago and it only sort of fit me. My best friends of the last several years studied tae kwon do and for some of them the high stances and the flying-through-the-air techniques worked great and were fun, but one of them was built by nature to have difficulty leaving the ground and while he worked hard bad knees and large bones hindered his advancement. As you have already enjoyed wrestling, when you are talking to senseis about what they teach get their opinion on judo. If they scoff at it they will also downplay your wrestling background. If possible get a teacher who will teach judo as well when your class advances, or you advance, to that level of skill.

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That is it, vixen, as you say in your first sentence:
As I mentioned in a different post somewhere in this topic: the problem is often, when you want to take up or continue martial art x, y or z, a) to find a club near enough to you offering that particular one and a club which offers the martial art you want, but one which you can afford.

I, for one, was never very keen on karate, I always felt more for Chinese martial arts (I used to do Tai Chi for a number of years), kick boxing and army style self defence.
However, when I wanted to take up martial arts again, either the clubs where you could do Tai Chi or kick boxing were too far to travel to (considering training is usually in the evenings) or far too expensive (I found there is a Krav Maga club right in my own town, but you practically have to have won the lottery to become a member).

Having said all that, now that I have done karate for a few years, and now I am progressing well, I must admit I really do enjoy the sport.
So, give whatever you can find a try, it might turn out much better than you had expected.
Also, do not be happy with just leaning a few techniques, do try to choose a club with a teacher who shows you everything a to z.

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I think martial arts is cool and you should go for it... its a cool sport and when you get better at it you can show your Pwnage skills to ppl....

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Martial arts are indeed cool, however, it is not a matter of showing off.
When you think like this you are going around it completely the wrong way.
That is not what martial arts are about.
As a skilled martial artist, you can of course give exhibitions, to show what your particular martial art involves, or to rouse interest for the art in young (and even older)people.
Most definitely you can show the beauty and efficiency of your martial art, show the benefits it may have on your well being, health, strength and how efficient it is in situations when you are in danger, but it is not supposed to be shown 'how good you are' (or, at least, you 'think' you are).

It is the martial art doing things for you, not the other way round. You show your devotion (and gratitude) to the martial artby working hard and practising and trying to become as good at it as you can, to the glory of your martial art, not your own.
This is just another part of discipline.

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i second those thoughts.Martial Arts are great help to keep us zen and calm.

the best one for me, ill say bone art martial"Aikido" the most lethal of all.

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Once again, not 100 % the way to go about things.

Is it one of the principles of any martial art to be lethal then?

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if your used to wrestling maybe you can try judo , daijutsu, aikido, ninjutsu. They are the same with wrestling in a way that you use your body/ weight to win.

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Reading this amazes me...I honestly did not know there were this many different types of martial arts. The only ones I knew of before were like Tai Quan Do or however it's spelled, along with normal "Karate"......Oh, Jujitsu I think is the other...I was in Karate for a little while when I was younger but didn't really find it interesting enough. Maybe another type would be more attention grabbing for me?

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